wiki/linux/ip.md

@@ -32,22 +32,7 @@ ip link set wlan0 down
 
 For VPN and other applications using a tunnel it can be useful to check the
 outside IP of your system.
-The following command uses the `dig` command.
-It is either bundled in the `dig` package - like in
-[Arch Linux](/wiki/linux/arch-linux/arch-linux.md) - or in the `dnsutils`
-package - like in Ubuntu - or even another package depending on the distribution
-used.
-After installation the following command can be used to get the outside IP
-address of your system.
-
-```sh
-dig +short txt ch whoami.cloudflare @1.0.0.1
-```
-
-There is an alternative to this using `wget`.
-It uses a call to DuckDuckGo and requests the outside IP from there.
-The mentioned command is the following.
-
-```sh
-wget -qqO- 'https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+my+ip' | grep -Pow 'Your IP address is \K[0-9.]+'
-```
+Together with `awk` only the outside IP address can be displayed.
+This is done with the command `ip route get 1.2.3.4 | awk '{print $7}'`.
+Alternatively it can be done without `awk` by simply running the command
+`ip route get 1.2.3.4` and checking for the seventh column.